Lachesis seduction device: 100cr

Let's you change your -starting- age to any other age that's allowed for character creation (13-31 or whatever it is)

YES. Screw my starting at 16-ness.I want my extra 20 years legit.

YES. I want to have played for those extra 16 years my character existed.

Find an Aeonicist and then abuse anyone that tries to revert it?

Read it again? STARTING age. As in, the age you start with in character creation.

I think we're confused, do you want this to change your birthdate or change your age? Or both? And why?

I think in the past we've been told 'no' to anything that changes birthdate in a way that could effect astrology, but I could be mistkane?

Not birthdate, birthyear. Estarra previously considered an arti that changes age by a massive amount (earlier in this thread too, I think), so think my idea is at least reasonable.

You know how you pick a starting age when you make a char? I just want an arti to be able to adjust that.

So it'll be aeonics ageing 2.0?

No. Aeonics aging lets you go +-20 from your birth-age. This would let you adjust your birth age instead, so they have two completely different ends (and would stack with aeonics aging in that regard).

So, let's say I started at age 22. I could adjust myself to age 18 base and then get 20 years shaved off by Aeonics, and now I would be 24 years younger.

Note: I don't actually have a desire for this artifact being made myself. Just pointing out where the difference would be.

I said 2.0 because it's improved in that when you use ageing it's obvious if you do the simple math of current year minus birth year doesn't equal their age, but yeah I think I get it now.

How about this for an Aethership.

Escape Pod (Costs Credits)

* When a ship dies, the AE sucks all people into an escape pod. I'm not sure who it should take--maybe it's based on Manse Permissions, or maybe you need to form a covey and it takes everybody in that covey.
* The Pod is a one-room temporary sphere that flies back to the Aetherplex. You're safe from Aetherbeasts but it takes about 1-2 minutes to get back. (In the usual case of the pod grabbing everybody during a boarding raid--maybe there's an interesting battle in the pod!)
* Once back at the aetherplex everybody is shunted out to the plex.
* You can use the escape pod manually. In this case, everybody goes to the room the artifact is in and the pilot activates it along with a self-destruct sequence. Or, we don't allow it and it's a good way to take some people back just in case things get rough. However, once an escape pod is used it won't work again until after the AE dies one time or it can "regrow" one.

The reason for the delay is to help with aethership battle balance. I think this would be a useful tool for ships especially when you're taking a crew along.

Any thoughts about possibilities or limitations?

I don't see an issue with a way to ferry back home as an artifact, since demigods can already ascend from an aethership.

YEEES. Save us poor almost-but-not-quite-demi people.

Eh. It sounds like AFKers can easily abuse this.

By... Not dying?

Make it only take those locked into a module (and make a habit of gusting AFK people into your cargo holds).

Don't think aetherbashers need a way to bypass dying. Have to keep some risk to this afk experience mine still - at least, in regards to the first point about the ship dying and automatically sucking everyone on board to the pod, anyway.

Otherwise, go for it for the other things.

I'd much prefer (And it'd make a bit more sense) if it just sucked everyone in the room into it or if you had to activate it manually so it wouldn't always save you if you weren't fast enough.

I was thinking that too, but then one could just trigger off of a warning that was given...

QQ

-wait 10 seconds-

-log back in- Heeey, I'm back at the aetherplex and everyone else is dead!

Hi, QQ abuse.